Tyler Equipment Appraisal
Certified valuations of heavy equipment in Tyler and Smith County. Starting at $295.
Tyler equipment appraisal is an independent, certified statement of what the heavy equipment of a Smith County business is worth on a stated date. It is ordered for a contractor’s excavators and dozers, an oilfield service company’s winch trucks and vacuum trucks, a nursery’s or a farm’s tractors and loaders, and a fleet’s semi trucks and trailers. Each report is prepared under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and signed by a Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraiser (CMEA).
- One report can take in a yard in Tyler, a job site near Whitehouse and a farm outside Lindale.
- Desktop work needs no trip to the yard, only your photos and records.
- Some lenders and courts want the equipment seen. Then an on-site inspection is booked.
- Your Tyler equipment appraiser values machines one at a time, not as a single lump sum.
- A written fee and a delivery date arrive before you decide.
- USPAP-compliant
- Signed by a CMEA
- Rated 5.0 on Google
How do I order a Tyler equipment appraisal?
1. Name the equipment
The quote form opens with one question: what is it, and how many?
2. Pick the method and the timing
Tell the form whether a desktop appraisal will do or the equipment must be inspected, which city it is in, and how soon you need the report. Then leave a name and an email address.
3. Gather the records
After the quote is accepted, send the equipment list, the serial number of each piece, its hours or miles, and photos.
What should a Smith County equipment owner know first?
- One county, one district
- The Tyler metro area is Smith County alone, and business equipment here is listed with the Smith County Appraisal District on Loop 323 in Tyler. The district is the county office that appraises property for tax. The yearly list an owner files is called a rendition, and the state’s due date for it is April 15. Smith County Appraisal District
- How the district arrives at a value
- The Smith County district says the market value of business equipment is derived from the owner’s rendition, from field inspections and from a review of comparable values of similar types of businesses. It also posts two percent good schedules, one headed Commercial and one headed Industrial, that give a percent good for each year of age and each expected life from 3 to 20 years.
- Tyler is the court city
- Federal cases from Smith County are filed in Tyler itself. The clerk of the Tyler Division sits in the William M. Steger Federal Building and United States Courthouse, on West Ferguson Street. The bankruptcy court’s clerk is in the Plaza Tower at the corner of College and Ferguson Streets, and that court’s page names Tyler as the primary place for holding court in cases filed in Tyler and in Marshall, unless the judge directs otherwise.
- SBA loans
- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) lists Smith County under its Dallas/Fort Worth District Office. Ask your SBA lender what the appraisal must cover before you order.
- Turnaround
- Once every photo and record is in, a desktop report is a job of 7 to 10 business days. On a rush order, one machine or a pair takes 24 to 48 hours. Inspections on site take longer.
- Fee
- Starting at $295. What raises it is the length of the list, a visit to the equipment or a rush date.
What should I know about equipment around Tyler?
A district schedule that reads age and not hours, oilfield service trucks, and nursery and hay tractors.
Contractors and the district’s tables
The two tables run on a machine’s age and an expected life in years. Hours and condition are not columns on either, so one excavator can carry the same percent good as another of the same year with twice the hours. A market value for each machine can be set beside the district’s figure.
Oilfield service trucks
The Smith County district appraises equipment and vehicles used to produce income, which takes in an oilfield service company’s trucks. For a vacuum truck, which draws liquid into a tank with a pump and hauls it away, give the tank size and what the tank is made of. For a winch truck, which uses a winch to pull heavy equipment onto a bed, send photos of the winch and the bed.
Nurseries and hay
The farm census of the U.S. Department of Agriculture lists hay as Smith County’s largest crop by acres and nursery stock among its crops. Many nursery and farm tractors are compact, and many carry a front loader. Give the horsepower, the hours and the implements, such as a baler or mower, that sell with each.
What clients have said
“Thanks for the fast turn around.”
“Looks great Rhett!”
“The reports look great.”
What equipment is appraised around Tyler?
Construction, oilfield, farm and trucking equipment anywhere in Smith County, a single unit or a company’s whole list.
Earthmoving
Excavators, dozers, motor graders, wheel loaders and scrapers. Photograph the tracks or tires and the hour meter.
Oilfield trucks
Vacuum trucks and winch trucks. Note the tank size, the pump and the winch.
Well service rigs
Rigs on trucks that service and repair wells: well service rigs and workover rigs. Include the latest inspection of the mast, the tower that stands up from the truck, if one was done.
Semi trucks and trailers
Semi trucks and dump trucks, plus flatbed and lowboy trailers. A lowboy has a deck close to the road, which keeps a tall machine under the legal height limit. Give the VIN, the vehicle identification number, and the miles on each truck.
Tractors and loaders
Farm and nursery tractors with their loaders and implements, and hay equipment.
Forklifts
Warehouse and yard forklifts. Send the hours and the capacity from the plate.
Equipment not named here can be described on the form.
How do I choose an appraiser for Tyler equipment?
Does each machine get its own figure?
The Smith County district says it also looks at comparable values of similar types of businesses. Ask that every machine carry its serial number, its hours and its own figure in the report, so each can be set beside the district’s.
Can one report go to the district and the court?
In Tyler the appraisal district, the federal district clerk and the bankruptcy clerk are all in the same city. Name every use of the report in the equipment box on the quote form, so it names the right kind of value and the right date.
Can the report be ready before the rendition date?
The Smith County district’s extension request form says a written request mailed by April 15 moves the due date to May 15. Write the date you need in the quote form’s deadline question, and compare it with the delivery date on the quote.
Which Tyler offices and courts deal with an equipment file?
The Smith County Appraisal District. Its forms page lists a rendition extension request and a Dealer’s Heavy Equipment Inventory Declaration, the form for a business that sells heavy equipment. A protest is a formal objection to the district’s value that goes before the appraisal review board, and an owner can offer an appraisal as evidence. Smith County Appraisal District
The federal courts. The Tyler Division takes cases from ten counties, Smith, Gregg, Rusk and Cherokee among them. Both its clerk and the bankruptcy court’s clerk are in downtown Tyler.
Lenders. A bank lending against equipment usually asks for one of two values. Fair market value supposes an open sale and enough time to find a buyer. Orderly liquidation value supposes the equipment is sold off within months, and is lower. Some banks want both.
What do I send for a Tyler appraisal?
- An equipment list showing the year, the make and the model.
- Each serial number, and the VIN of each truck and trailer.
- Hour meter readings for machines and odometer readings for trucks.
- Photos of every piece from each side, with the serial plate and the meter.
- The district’s notice of value, its yearly letter stating the value, if the report is for a protest.
Which Smith County towns are covered?
All of Smith County, including:
- Tyler
- Lindale
- Whitehouse
- Bullard
- Troup
- Arp
- Winona
- Noonday
- New Chapel Hill
- Hideaway
- Overton
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What else do Tyler equipment owners ask?
Where are heavy equipment and trucks sold in Tyler?
Tyler’s HOLT CAT store, on State Highway 31 West, calls itself a Cat equipment dealer and says it offers sales, service and rentals of heavy equipment for construction, earthmoving, mining, industrial, petroleum and agriculture. The John Deere dealer United Ag & Turf has a store on Highway 155, and Rush Truck Centers on U.S. Highway 69 North sells new and used Peterbilt trucks. Ritchie Bros. auction results include machines located in Bullard.
Do you appraise equipment in Jacksonville and Kilgore?
Yes. Jacksonville is in Cherokee County, which is in the Tyler Division too and has its own appraisal district. Kilgore lies in Gregg and Rusk counties, which are also in the Tyler Division and have their own districts.
When is the rendition due in Smith County?
Texas sets April 15. The Smith County district’s forms page lists its own rendition extension request for owners who need more time.
I sell heavy equipment. Does my inventory go on the same form?
Heavy equipment dealers use a different form for machines held for sale, the Dealer’s Heavy Equipment Inventory Declaration, which the district lists among its forms. If that is you, say in the equipment box on the quote form which machines are inventory and which are the business’s own.
Request a Tyler equipment appraisal quote
Excavators, dozers, vacuum trucks, winch trucks, semi trucks, tractors and forklifts in Tyler and across Smith County, appraised for owners, lenders and courts. The form is four questions long and the quote comes back by email.